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Originally Posted by lovespandp  Congrats on your soon to be pup- I honestly never heard of a breeder letting outsiders visiting puppies that young.. If I were you I would just let her send you pictures. It kind of makes me nervous she is letting visitors so soon… Parvo virus can be carried on your shoes!! Just be cautious. Hopefully some YT breeders will come on here and educate a little more!
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This is just me....and I am a crazy, over the top breeder.....and I have already HAD parvo brought in to my home on a puppy visitors shoes and it almost wiped me completely out!! That was close to 8 years ago....and I stopped allowing people onto my property to visit with their babies until those babies have 2 vaccinations in them...and then it is like being a member of a hazmat unit...shoe covers, hand sanitizer, walking across rugs that have been sprayed with Virkon prior to the shoe covers, and the foyer is as far as anyone is allowed to enter. It is just not worth it for me to risk EVER AGAIN, the lives of my babies and even loosing my business....the most expensive babies I have ever sold, combined together, does not come close to what it cost me to save the litter of puppies that came down with parvo, as well as throw out every single item those babies had come in contact with, have my home and yard treated and "sterilized"....plus then not breeding for almost 2 years just to be certain that any trace of that horrific disease was totally obliterated from my property. And remember, if YOU are allowed there to handle and walk around her property/home, so is anyone else....and she really does not know for sure where any of you have been or walked or handled...she is taking each persons word for it. And you KNOW parvo virus lives on surfaces and is quite capable of transfer for a LOT LONGER than the 6 weeks you have been away from unvaccinated dogs.....and may have picked up the virus working around parvo infested dogs!